Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 368
ollowing night, out of doors under thestarlight, developed into a beautiful flower. A. D. Dart. A PLAGUE OF GRASSHOPPERS While grasshoppers are interesting to the ento-mologist, and have instructive habits that wouldpay anybody to study, they often become an un-bearable pest to the farmer, because… … RAKING UP THE GRASSHOPPERS. were so overrun with the insects that some meansof destroying them became positively necessary.So Mr. Wise made a machine consisting of adrag, a trough partly filled with unrefined kero-sene oil, and a contrivance by which the grass-hoppers were brushed into the oil as…
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